THE FUTURE OF NANOMEDINE
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology. Nanomedicine ranges from the medical applications of nanomaterials and biological devices, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology such as biological machines. Current problems for nanomedicine involve understanding the issues related to toxicity and environmental impact of nanoscale materials (materials whose structure is on the scale of nanometers, i.e. billionths of a meter).
2. NANOTECHNOLOGY
BRANCH OF TECHNOLOGY THAT
DEALS WITH DIMENSIONS AND
TOLERANCES OF LESS THAN 100
NANOMETERS, ESPECIALLY THE
MANUPULATIN OF INDIVIDUAL
ATOMES AND MOLECULES. FROM
THIS NANOMEDICINE DERIVED
3. PROESER NORIO TANIGUCHI OF TOKYO
SCIENCE UNIVERSITY, INTRODUCE THE TERM
“NANOTECHNOLOGY”,IN 1974.
NANOTECHNOLOGY CAN BE OF USE TO
MEDICINE, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND
PHARMACOLOGY HAS BEEN RESEARCHED
SINCE THE 1990s.
4. European Science Foundation {ESF} define
nanomedicine as
‘‘the science and technology of diagnosing and
preventing disease and traumatic injuries or
reliving pain and improving human health,
using molecular tools and molecular
knowledge of human body”
7. Nanotechnology has provided
the possibility of delivering
drugs to specific cells using
nanoparticles.
The overall drug consumption
and side-effects may be lowered
significantly by depositing the
active agent in the morbid
region only and in no higher
dose than needed.
8. THE US-FDA had approved the
world’s first digital pill, called
Abilify MyCite,
which is embedded with a special
sensor that indicates when it’s been
ingested.
We can monitor its delivery.
9. Nanomedicine a single platform, by targeting
specific tumor cells, tissues and organs.
Nanoparticles have high surface area to
volume ratio. This allows for many functional
groups to be attached to a nanoparticle,
which can seek out and bind to certain cells.
10. Nanosensors are
chemical or mechanical
sensors that can be used
to detect the presence of
chemical species and
nanoparticles, or monitor
physical parameters such
as temperature, on the
nanoscale.
They also find use in
medical diagnostic
applications.
11. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines
or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer.
machines constructed at the molecular level ( may be
used to cure the human body of its various ills.
This application of
nanotechnology
to the field of medicine is
commonly called
as nanomedicine.
12. Drug delivery to exact location.
Lesser side effects, high efficacy.
Molecular targeting by nano engineered
devices.
Detection/Diagnosis diseases relatively easy
and fast.
No surgery is required.
Disease can be easily cured.
14. Nanomedicines are striving for the
distribution of a valuable set of research
tools and clinically useful devices in the
near future.
The National Nanotechnology Initiative
assumes novel viable applications in the
pharmaceutical industry that may include
advanced drug delivery systems,
new therapies,
and in vivo imaging.